LA PERDIDA
by Jessica Abel
Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, La Perdida – at once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal – is a story about finding oneself by getting lost.

KIMMIE66
by Aaron Alexovich
This high-velocity, virtual-reality ghost story features 15-year-old Telly, who spends most of her time in the online VR lair of Elysium to escape her regular life. After she receives an e-mail suicide note from her best friend, KIMMIE66, Telly decides to investigate the validity of the mysterious message by traveling into the dark reaches of the online world.

CONFESSIONS OF A BLABBERMOUTH
by Mike Carey & Louise Carey
After her mom brings home an annoying boyfriend, Tasha's dysfunctional family is headed for a complete mental meltdown. But Tasha's blog is her ultimate weapon–and she's not afraid to use it.

RE-GIFTERS
by Mike Carey
Jen Dik Seong, a.k.a. "Dixie," is dirt poor and living on the ragged edge of LA's Koreatown. Her only outlet is the ancient martial art of hapkido, and she's on the verge of winning a championship–until she falls for surfer boy Adam.

THE PLAIN JANES
by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
When transfer student Jane is forced to move to Suburbia, she thinks her life is over. But at the lunch room reject table she finds her tribe: three other girls named Jane. Main Jane encourages them to form a secret art gang and paint the town P.L.A.I.N. - People Loving Art In Neighborhoods. But can art attacks really save the hell that is high school?

GHOST WORLD
by Daniel Clowes
this quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the author's name) follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart.

SCOOTER GIRL
by Chynna Clugston-Major
Ashton Archer is the big man on campus until the beautiful and sarcastic Margaret throws him off. Everything he does in her presence is a complete disaster, and she sees through his shallow ways immediately, turning everyone against him. But their hatred for each other hides a spark of something else.

SUBWAY SERIES
by Leela Corman
Subway Series follows the exploits of Tina, a frustrated sixteen-year-old city girl whose affections are divided between two guys. The problem is, one has an out of town girlfriend and the other is a complete jerk. Add to that an adversary whom she once called a friend who's out to humiliate her, and now confused Tina doesn't know which way to turn.

IN THE SMALL
by Michael Hague
When a mysterious cataclysmic event, "the blue flash," causes the population of the earth to shrink in size to six inches tall, suddenly humanity has the tables turned on itself: The very civilization it has created becomes its greatest obstacle to survival. Amid the confusion and turmoil, two strong teenagers, 18-year-old Mouse and his younger sister Beat, emerge as the most promising leaders, eventually setting out on a quest to discover the secret that could redeem this strange new world.

SLOTH
by Gilbert Hernandez and Jared K. Fletcher
Troubled teenager Miguel Serra becomes a walking urban legend after he wills himself into a coma and wakes up one year later virtually unchanged – except for his sloth-like pace. Discover how a haunted lemon orchard, a mysterious goatman and murder collide as Miguel, his girlfriend Lita and their friend Romeo take on the teenage wasteland of suburbia.

THE 9/11 REPORT: A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION
by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
This graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Commission's official report on the terrorist attacks puts at every American's fingertips the most defining event of the century.

GOOD AS LILY
by Derek Kirk Kim
Following a strange mishap on her 18th birthday, Grace Kwon is confronted with herself at three different periods in her life. The timing couldn't be worse as Grace and her friends desperately try to save a crumbling school play. Will her other selves wreak havoc on her present life or illuminate her uncertain future?

SAME DIFFERENCE
by Derek Kirk Kim
A series of short stories in graphic novel format follows a group of friends in their twenties as they navigate young adulthood and relationships.

FAX FROM SARAJEVO: A STORY OF SURVIVAL
by Joe Kubert
Ervin finds himself and his family trapped in a city under siege. When the shells and gunfire tear the city asunder, Ervin's only means of communication to the outside world is via his fax machine. A true story.

MERCURY
by Hope Larson
Tara is forced to move in with her cousins after her house burns down. She faces a difficult adjustment while her mother is away trying to earn money. Interwoven with this story is that of Tara's ancestors, who in 1859 were convinced by a mysterious stranger to put all their money into searching their property for gold.

KAMPUNG BOY
by Lat
Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.

MAKING COMICS: STORYTELLING SECRETS OF COMICS, MANGA AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
by Scott McCloud
In a voice that mixes dry humor and clear, concise instruction, McCloud's cartoon narrator shows readers how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalist way.

WATCHMEN
by Alan Moore
There's a reason people didn't trust Batman when he first roamed the streets of Gotham – who was he to judge who was right and who was wrong? Watchmen, full of superheroes of the same breed as Superman, Spiderman, and more, explores all the complicated answers provoked by the question: Why do superheroes do what they do?

BLINDSPOT
by Kevin C. Pyle
Dean and his friends have turned the woods behind their housing development into an area of operations for their army fantasy and spend hours lost in episodes of intrigue and danger. A scary encounter with a homeless man in the woods one night, however, changes everything.

THE MAKING OF A GRAPHIC NOVEL
by Prentis Rollins
Rollins, a comic book artist since 1993, gives the reader a behind-the-scenes look at the way a graphic novel is made, explaining and illustrating in five chapters multiple stages, from writing, preproduction to penciling, inking and lettering.

TO DANCE: A BALLERINA'S GRAPHIC NOVEL
by Siena Cherson Siegel
The author describes how she first decided she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of six, and how that dream carried her from her home in Puerto Rico to dance class in Boston to performing with the New York City Ballet.

DEOGRATIAS: A TALE OF RWANDA
by Jean-Philippe Stassen
Set in Rwanda before and after the Tutsi genocide, and seen through the eyes of a young Hutu boy, this story reveals the grip of madness and horror on one young man and his country.

THE TALE OF ONE BAD RAT
by Bryan Talbot
Helen Potter becomes the armored knight before her own personal demons. It's a story of heroism and courage, and of defeating the greatest enemy–the one which lives within.

SKIM
by Mariko Tamaki
When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique starts a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression.

BLANKETS
by Craig Thompson
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two teens.

SLEEPWALK AND OTHER STORIES
by Adrian Tomine
Sixteen concise, haunting tales of modern life. The characters here appear to be well-adjusted on the surface, but Tomine takes us deeper into their lives, subtly examining their struggle to connect with friends and lovers.

DAYS LIKE THIS
by J. Torres
Largely based on real-life events, this book takes the reader back to the early 1960s New York pop music scene, to the days of the doo-wop revival and the rise of the girl groups.

HOPELESS SAVAGES
by Jen Van Meter
How do you rebel when your parents are original punk rock stars Dirk Hopeless and Nikki Savage? For Rat Hopeless-Savage, the answer is to leave home and start a new life somewhere, become a normal citizen with a nine-to-five job. Its going pretty well, too, until Dirk and Nikki are kidnapped, and suddenly the family he tried so hard to deny needs him more than ever.

PRIDE OF BAGHDAD
by Brian K. Vaughan
In the spring of 2003, a pride of lions escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid, roaming the streets in a desperate struggle for their lives. Pride of Baghdad raises questions about the true meaning of liberation–can it be given or is it earned only through self-determination and sacrifice? And in the end, is it truly better to die free than to live life in captivity?

GIRL STORIES
by Lauren R. Weinstein
A collection of comics about the ins and outs of being a girl on the verge of adolescence, many of which appeared originally on the website gurl.com.

DEMO
by Brian Wood
Stories of conflicted teens grappling with love, loss, and the joy of finding your own way in life.

AMERICAN BORN CHINESE
by Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien
This graphic novel portrays the life of a young Chinese-American boy who moves from San Francisco’s Chinatown to the suburbs, where he is one of two Asian children in the school.

FOILED
by Jane Yolen
Aliera is a star at fencing, but at school no one notices her – until her new lab partner Avery begins flirting with her. Aliera's mother just bought her a foil from a garage sale, and it has a strange jewel attached to the hilt. Will Aliera's first date be ruined when magical creatures try to steal her foil?

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER OMNIBUS
by various authors
The definitive comic collection of all things Buffy starts here. This first massive volume begins with "The Origin," a faithful adaptation of creator Joss Whedon's original screenplay for the 1992 film, along with three more stories.

DEAD HIGH YEARBOOK
by various authors
Eight intertwined stories of teens from one high school who meet grisly fates are told in this creepy, ironic graphic novel designed to look like a yearbook, and illustrated by some of today's top comic-book talent.

SERIES

KING SERIES
VOLUME 1: KING: A COMIC BOOK BIOGRAPHY
by Ho Che Anderson
Anderson follows King from boyhood through college and into the stormy civil rights movement. But while the broad narrative of King's life may be familiar, this is hardly a Classic Comics approach to the man. In order to capture the complexity of King's life and times, Anderson employs a uniquely multifacted and multilayered graphic and narrative technique that falls somewhere between cartooning, painting, collage and documentary photography.

POWERS SERIES
VOLUME 1: WHO KILLED RETRO GIRL?
by Brian Michael Bendis
Heroes glide through the sky on lightning bolts and fire. Flamboyant villains attempt daring daylight robberies. God-like alien creatures clash in epic battle over the night-time sky. And on the dirty city streets below, homicide detective Christian Walker does his job.

LENORE SERIES
VOLUME 1: NOOGIES
by Roman Dirge
A romp into the dark, surreal world of a little dead girl. Featuring stories about limbless cannibals, clock monsters, cursed vampire dolls, taxidermied friends and more fuzzy animal mutilations than should be legal.

THE SANDMAN SERIES
by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman and his siblings (embodiments of the dark forces of nature like Despair, Destiny, Delirium and Desire) have various adventures in the modern day world.

VAMPIRE KNIGHT SERIES
VOLUME 1
by Matsuri Hino
Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the day class and the night class. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of the school, protecting the day class from the Academy's dark secret: the night class is full of vampires!

CASTLE WAITING SERIES
VOLUME 1
by Linda Medley
Under troubling circumstances, a beautiful princess is forced to flee her "happily-ever-after" home and seek refuge in an isolated, forgotten castle filled with familiar faces from Mother Goose, the Brothers Grimm, and an eccentric band of brand new fairy-tale characters.

HELLBOY SERIES
by Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic book series about a creature from Hades who joins the battle against evil.

30 DAYS OF NIGHT SERIES
VOLUME 1
by Steve Niles
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

DEATH NOTE SERIES
VOLUME 1: BOREDOM
by Tsugumi Ohba
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and bored out of his mind! But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, and notebook dropped by a rogue shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.

SCOTT PILGRIM SERIES
VOLUME 1: SCOTT PILGRIM'S PRECIOUS LITTLE LIFE
by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life.

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION SERIES
VOLUME 1
by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Teenager Shinji Ikari finds himself swept into the midst of an epic battle with the fate of humanity hanging on its outcome.

PERSEPOLIS SERIES
VOLUME 1
by Marjane Satrapi
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.

MANGA SHAKESPEARE SERIES
BOOK ONE: HAMLET
by William Shakespeare; adapted by Richard Appignanesi
The Bard’s greatest plays in an accessible, lively format for a new generation of readers.

EERIE QUEERIE! SERIES
VOLUME 1
by Shuri Shiozu
When Mitsuo Shiozu is taken over in succession by two female ghosts, they use their incorporations to resolve something left undone by their untimely deaths.

BONE SERIES
VOLUME 1: OUT FROM BONEVILLE
by Jeff Smith
After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited but little do the Bones know, there are dark forces conspiring against them and their adventures are only just beginning!

MAUS SERIES
MAUS: A SURVIVOR'S TALE
by Art Spiegelman
A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.

ACTION PHILOSOPHERS SERIES
VOLUME 1
by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey
Details the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust, told in a hip and humorous comic book fashion.

RUNAWAYS SERIES
VOLUME 1: PRIDE & JOY
by Brian K Vaughan
Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly and Nico – whose lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When these six young friends discover their parents are all secretly super-powered villains, the shocked teens find strength in one another. Together, they run away from home and straight into the adventure of their lives – vowing to turn the tables on their evil legacy.

Y THE LAST MAN SERIES
BOOK ONE: UNMANNED
by Brian K Vaughan
In the summer of 2002, a plague of unknown origin destroyed every last sperm, fetus, and fully developed mammal with a Y chromosome-with the apparent exception of one young man and his male pet. This "gendercide" instantaneously exterminated 48% of the global population, or approximately 2.9 billion men. Now, aided by the mysterious Agent 355, the last human male Yorick Brown must contend with dangerous extremists, a hoped-for reunion with a girlfriend on the other side of the globe, and the search for exactly why he's the only man to survive.

UMBRELLA ACADEMY SERIES
VOLUME 1: APOCALYPSE SUITE
by Gerard Way
In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, 'To save the world.' These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers.

FABLES SERIES
VOLUME 1: LEGENDS IN EXILE
by Bill Willingham
This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers.

MARVEL CIVIL WAR SERIES
by various authors
A conflict has been brewing from more than a year, threatening to pit friend against friend, brother against brother - and all it will take is a single misstep to cost thousands their lives and ignite the fuse! As the war claims its first victims, no one is safe as teams, friendships and families begin to fall apart.

MARVEL 1602 SERIES
by various authors
All's not well in the Marvel Universe in the year 1602 as strange storms are brewing and strange new powers are emerging! Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, Dr. Doom, Black Widow, Captain America and more appear in the waning days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.